The Straits Times, 18 August 1946

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    19 1 The Straits Times THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER fN MALAYA No. 577. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, *****. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    100 DEAD IN CALCUTTA RIOTS
    456 1 200 DEAD IN CALCUTTA RIOTS Arson looting: Troops called in THE death roll in the Calcutta Hindu-Muslim riots which broke out on Friday following the opening of the Muslim "direct action" campaign yesterday mounted to more than 200 and there are 1,500 in- jured. The police were again compelled to
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    (he Is 'MiM Conference'
    55 1 She Is 'Miss Conference' P ople attending the Paris Pea: t < onference have jrknowIriirrd the charms of the pretties* girl ttiert b> railing her Miss loi.frrence She i< -nd Lieut Jacqueline Thrron. of the women's se.tion of the an Army at d she is the daughter of the ch.rf
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    NEHRU SEES VICEROY
    110 1 NEW DELHI. Sat. BANDIT Jawaharlal Ncnru. Con--1 gress Party President, accompanied by VaLabhai Patel, saw the Viceroy. Lord Wavell today about the new interim government in m'hich Congress quarters expect Nehru to be Prime Minister and Foreign MinisUr. It was reliably reported that Nehru sought to clarify
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    Unanimity—for a moment—in Paris
    199 1 Unanimity— for a moment— in Paris PARIS. Sat. THE Peace Conference today displayed one of its rare mo--1 ments of unanimity by unanimously adopting a Soviet proposal that Iran be given the same right to be heard by the conference, and on the r HM basis, as extended to Alba-
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    Only Jap Women May Stay In Spore
    79 1 Only Jap Women May Stay In S 'pore rifr I EEN^ applications by JapanAomcn and five m;'n 1 to live in Singapore have born placed before the Governor, Sir 'ranklin Gin this at a Press Conterday, Sir Fra-iklin said the only Japanese who were likely to remain in Singapore >men
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    INTEREST IN FREE RUBBER MARKET
    211 1 INTEREST IN FREE RUBBER MARKET Sunday Times Correspondent LONDON, Saturday. COMMENTING that the v rubber share market seems to have taken to heart Mr. F. D. Ascoli's (managing director of the Dunlop Rubbej Company) recent plea ior a free rubber market, the City Editor of The Times points out that
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    JAVA RUBBER
    50 1 BATAVIA, Sat. The Indonesian Republican Government is now direct ng efforts towards increasing the production of rubber on Renublican controlled estates in West Java in order to keep ai: ample quantity ready fc export at any t me. The main obstacle is th<* acute shortage of labour —Reuter.
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    Secret Radio Calls Out Haifa Jews
    110 1 Secret Radio Calls Out Haifa Jews HAIFA. Sat. SEVERAL thousand Jews demonstrated here today as a protest against the expected deportation to Cyprus today or tomorrow of 1,450 illegal Jewish immigrants. Demonstrators were summoned to the Central Synagogue in Haifa early today (Jewish sabbath) by the Jewish resistance movement's secret
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    U.S. MAKES RECORD PROFITS
    147 1 WASHINGTON. Sat. AMERICA has achieved "substantially full employment" and record profits in a year of peace, the Reconversion Director, Mr. John L. Steelman, said in a statement here, but the "threat of inflation still casts a shadow over the future." "We must maintain high taxes, reduced
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    U.S. FILMS AWE JAPANESE
    77 1 TOXIC. Sat. rE showing of films depicting American industry, euueaton and politics has caused envy and amazement among Japanese rural audiences to whom they were shown by travelling projection units. Older audiences expressed envy of American high standards of living. Ex-sokLers are frankly amazed at tne
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    MORE N.I. TALKS, SAY DUTCH
    348 1 THE HAGUE, Saturday. I\R. J. R. Jonkman, Nether1/ lands Minister of Overseas Territories, told the Dutch Lower Chamber last night that the Dutch Government had reached an agreement with the Indonesian Nationalists. "The Government is prepared to continue discussions with Sutan SJahrir (Indonesian Prime Minster).
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    TIGHT SQUEEZE
    58 1 The BSOM ton Cunard -White Star liner Queen Flixabeth, undergoing conversion from war trooper to luxury transAtlantic passenger ship at Southampton Docks, has been successfully moved from 191 berth to the King: George V Grarinf Dock for the next stage of her conversion, sh,. is due to enter
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    SIAMESE DRIVE ON RICE SMUGGLERS
    164 1 SLAM has started direct action to combat smuggling of rice into Malaya by land or sea. The movement of r,ce stocks in provinces adjacent to Malaya except by land, has been banned. This is one attempt to block smuggling. The Director-General of S.amese Customs announced
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    58 SHOT IN GREECE
    72 1 LONDON. Sat. EXCHANGE Telegraph reports from Athens that 58 Communists were killed in clashes w.th troops and police there today. Forty were killed in engagements in Oaryao village in the Mount Olympus d strict and at Calamaki. near Volo, Thessalv. One policeman was killed anc* eight
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    London Study Of S.E. Asia Food Crisis
    145 1 Sunday Times Reporter rdeal with the food crisis in South-East Am a, a special committee has been set up in London, under Lord Nathan. The committee Is at present urgently dealing with the acquisition and dispatch of agricultural implements required ay South-East Asia
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    JAP POISON GAS DESTROYED
    61 1 KURE, Sat. AN L ST. filled with 3.000 ions of poison gases, wi'ich were part of Japan's huge secret stock, has been sunk by British occumi on forces as part of an oi.cration to destroy 1 7,000 tons. The L S.T. was towed 150 miles to
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    TRUMAN TAKES FHS FIRST HOLIDAY
    33 1 TRUMAN TAKES HIS FIRST HOLIDAY WASHINGTON Sat PRESIDENT TRUMAN has sailed aboard the presidential yacht Williamsburg on a 18-day vacation cruise, his first official vacation nee his entering the W^lte House— A. P.
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    SPOTLIGHT On MALA YA AND MALA VANS
    1846 2 SPOTLIGHT On MALA YA AND MALA YANS A STRAITS Chinese who set out to study the English people aa doiely as possible during a recent trip to Britain has returned to Singapore deeply impressed by the spirit with which they are ig the depressing: war period, overwhelmed by their hospitality
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      443 2 n r\ir\ Milt A \t A li45 o-.T>-i and trom 6 o m to 8 15 men, 9.30 p.m. Music Parade, 10.15 l\r\.Ui\J m/\ljXil/\ pm 'news in .vtanv *t ISO Dm) p.m. Montmartre players, 10.30 pjn. mb t ««b- TONIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS Radio Newsreel. 10.45 p m. London nm .n!i Z>
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    RICE NEWS MAY IMPROVE
    235 3 Problem foremost in my mind says Governor Sunday Times Reporter BETTER news about rice may be forthcoming from Ix>rd Killearn, Special Commissioner in SouthEast Asia, after the return from Bangkok of Maj.Gen. G. N. Russel, Transport Advisep to the Special Commissioner, who has flown to Siam
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    PILGRIMAGE BY AIR
    68 3 UJELL to de Martini* may 4* the Haj pilgrimage to Mecca this 3ea**n by air. The Government of India are chartering three special planes wh><*h will operate ferry scrvie. between Karachi and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia Hundreds ef Muslims have, however, already left by beat and will
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    t£W SI 4*4 ENVOY IN LONDON
    28 3 NEW SIAM ENVOY IN LONDON i n rw Simmcs? Minister to the i ourt «»f St James Is Frince NaUkhatra a c«B*n «f the I. .in »f -iiam.
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    Payments To Officer Alleged
    119 3 r'O summons charges alleging I that in January and February th s year he corruptly gave Lt. Metherell of the REME Base Workshops, sums of 5,000 rupees en each occasion by pay- 1 Mctherells account the Imperial Bank of India. B mbay branch, were read out
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    Colonial Secretary Going On Leave
    95 3 Sunday Time-, Ri^>rter v. Mr. P. A. B. McKerron. is leaving on Sept. 1 „r England, and during Mr. H. P. Bry.-on will deputise. This w by the c Sir Franklin Gimsnn, at I Piv&s conference yesterday. During his leave, Mr. licßervoa will discuss Smga-matu-rs
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    JAPSENTENCED iO DEATH
    59 3 JAP SENTENCED TO DEATH F>f illtreat >m died, a Murakan i d^atli by shooting, l.ij Motoki, S«' ibe to by a Sln,urt yestcrr n Sibu. Nort- end of l'J44. the d by t.-.e a .T-tun>d for three mont's. 114 the interrogation they V. n *:th -sticks, and red to water
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    REV. R.K.S. ADAMS
    36 3 Thp Rev. RK.S Asuins. t.riur.pal of St. And-eu j Srhc 1. arrived bac; in Singapore o/i Friday Padre Adams was interned In Singapora during 'the occupation and spent his recuperation kave in Australia.
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    Rice Substitute From Australia
    158 3 Sunday Times Reporter ADDITIONAL quantities of Rycena, a rice substitute, are to be allowed into Malaya monthly provid.ng its issue is subject to official control, it is understood. Rycena is a flour product and as such will probably be taken from Malaya's flour allocation. Whether Rycena
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    New Uses For Beer Empties
    30 3 Chinese ingenuity has treated another trade in Sinr**-- ty beer tins ar* serving mw »nd imporUnt purposes: as vil lamps, and sp.'.ys tor the <auuaerer.
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    SERVICES MEMORIAL IN ABBEY
    167 3 SERVICES MEMORIAL IN ABBEY LONDON Sa;. FIFTEEN of Britain's Cor£- mandos. Parachutists and submarine men. who died in battle, are to have a memorial Li Westminster Abbey. A group of three bronze figures, i > symbolising the men of the ccm- j bined operations, will be erected jin a bay
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    ESCAPES ON WAY TO COURT
    101 3 ESCAPES ON WAY TO COURT WHILE on the way from Outram Road gaol to the Police Court yesterday morning, two of 1 four men accused ol armed robbery in a house in Killiney Road jumped off the Police van in a bid to escape. One of them, Hashim bin Samat,
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    PASSIVE DEFENCE PAYMENTS
    284 3 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. ■THE Records Office in Kuala 1 Lumpur explains the delays in payments to members of the Passive Defence Services. It says these delays are natural in specific instances where forms have rot bren filled in properly and 'londtnc 1 h necossarv.
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    Singapore Women Fight For Cloth
    58 3 Constables manning the iron pat* of John Littles found it difficult to control the hundrrd- of womrn who fought to <,am admission to the store to bay Jap textiles. The Sunda\ Tit if s photographer took this pirfurr of the women and the ci«»\«-d who
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    RA TION CLERKS IN COURT
    271 3 AS a sequel to a Police raid on the Victoria School subcentre for the renewal of ration cards and alterations to ration and rice cards on July 27, 13 clerks of the Food Control Department were summoned before Mr. Paul Storr. the District Judge, yesterday
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    ALLEGED MURDER ATTEMPT
    57 3 TWO Indians. Nalathamby and Supaya, were produced in the Fourth Police Court yesterday on a charge of attempting to murder Abdul Raman bin Marican. in Nelson Road on Aug. 15 by shooting at him w-tb a pistol. Both were remanded in police custody for 48 hours. The
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    Labourer Gets 3 Yrs For Pistol
    100 3 Labourer Gets 3 Yrs For Pistol nORMERLY a head hit»urer 1 employed by the 4tao*" pore Cold Storage, Pcriasamy was sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment and fined $200 or a further three months' imprisonment by Mr. Paul Storr. the District Judge, yesterday for po— sion of a Browning automatic
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    800 Leaving On Next Trooper
    79 3 Sunday Times Krportcr FE Empress ot H.otland. th? BM t <; er to arrive in Singapore this month, is d en Aug 23 The yes. 1 is scinedultd to leav n Singapore wth 800 Br Ufh other ranks for the Unit<d Kingdom. The remainini; accommodation
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    CIGARETTES FOR DISTRIBUTION
    22 3 Sinsapore's rationed clfftfttttJ for this week will be: Players, Gold Flake, Capstan and 10 -ci cent, of Senior Servi.-e
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    MACDONALD DUE
    42 3 THE Governor-General, Mr Malcolm Mac Donald. U expected to return to Singapore today after his visit to Sarawak He will nro'iably I afternoon to Prnang wh«> r time this w=ek he will be present at a conference of G< verr
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    DEATH
    65 4 BOON kiah nee Madam Mb Kiat Neo passed away |iuufrtj at her residence No. 218. Moulmeui Road at 10 15 am. on 17 8.4«, leaving behind her belo\trd husband aafM, Tan Cheng Huat, Tan Cheng ian Chcn« Hone, > daughter! Tan Cheng Neo, Tar. Kirn Neo, 1 brother Sun
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    SINGAPORE, AUGUST 18, 1946. More3sct. Meals
    604 4 THE STRAITS TIMES SINGAPORE, AUGUST 18, 1946. More35ct. Meals PINGAPORES Social Welfare tJ Department youngest of the new Government organizations is showing a vigour and an adaptability in infancy which portend well for the future and the announcement that the People's Restaurants system is to be very considerably expanded clearly
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    WHERE THE A-BOMB WAS PRODUCED
    687 4 WHERE THE A-BOMB WAS PRODUCED The Press sees mystery laboratory FE home of the mighty atom is a mighty big place. Sprawling over what seems like the whole of Eastern Tennessee, the huge Manhattan project at Oak Ridge today swarming with activity designed to further peaceful scientific research, holds an
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    Dr. Evatt as Sir Galahad of the small states
    839 4  - Dr. Evatt as Sir Galahad of the small states 808 GILMORE Air Mail letter from MELBOURNE, Aug. 8. HERE i n the i-olation of the South Seas it is agreeably surprising, on tuning in the BBC or San Francisco, to find that others than Dr. H. V. Evatt have opened
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    How to use your perfume —&why
    340 4 How to use your perfume &why WHERE a woman should and should not place her perfumes, and why, is revealed by Prof. Ralph Bienfang, the University of Oklahoma, in a new book entitled "The Subtle Sense." The first place not to put perfume, says this adviser, is on the dress.
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    Independence Rally In Singapore
    17 5 Two of the speakers ait thr Indomsian independence day ra!l> in Singapore yesterday.
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    INDONESIANS CELEBRATE
    129 5 Sunday Times Reporter CHOUTING •Merdeka" Once Tree, forever free'- and *ngRaya," the.r na>m. Singapore Indos gathered at the Is tana Kampong Glam yesterday to cethe first anniverrarv c I thp Indonesian Republic. Indonesian shops ,n S:>. 1 for the occasion. A radio talk by Dr. Sciek^rno president of
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    SEIZED SHIPS INQUIRY?
    401 5 Governor promises to look into matter THE Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, has promised to look into the matter of the seizure by the Dutch naval authorities of 18 trading vessels belonging to Chinese merchants in Singapore. This was stated at an emergency meeting yesterday of the Singapore
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    KEMPEIIS HANGED IN K.L.
    52 5 KEMPEI IS HANGED IN K.L. Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Nischi, the most hated man during the Japanese regime when he tortured many Kuala Lumpur citizens, two of whom died, as haneed vi thr Pudu Gaol this morning. Nifhl was sentenced to death on June 25 by a War
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    Jap Propagandist Is Now Insane
    269 5 Sunday Times Reporter TWO notorious South East Asia "Ci^-prosperity Sphere" propagandists of the Japanese occupation Shozo <>f Syonnn and Hitoshi Shimizu of Indonesia have returned to their homeland, the former in a P.O.W. ship and the latter in a straight jacket— certified hopeinsane. Syonan's Shozo,
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    LANDING BARGE ON FIRE
    76 5 piP.E broke out on board a landing barge off Clifford Pier yesterday at about 3 p.m. The fire started in the engine room, where the timber was completely gutted. Prompt action by men of the Singapore Municipal Fire Brigade prevented the ftre from spreadin? Damage was
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    UNION TALKS ADJOURNED
    54 5 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat THE working committee of the representatives of t)he Malay rulers, the United Malay National Organte».tjon and the Malr| an Union Government, which began its meetings on Aug. 6, has adjourned deliberations until Sept. G, In view of the fasting montin and
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    BEAUTY QUEEN
    54 5 LONDON, Sat. CHOSEN Folkestone's Beauty Queen for the carnival and fete which started on Wednesday is Private Pearl Caidy, 21. A.T S. brunette, whose home is at Swanage, Dorset. She is serving at No. 2 Women's Services Transit Camp. Folkestone, from where the first wives for the BAOR
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    $1 Radio Sets Being Built In Singapore
    96 5 $1 Radio Sets Being Built In Singapore Sunday Times Reporter YOU can get a radio set in Singapore to-day for less than one dollar without the earphones, of course. It will give you good reception of Radio Malaya's medium wave bioadcasts and it will do that without any increase in
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    V.M.C.A. FUND NOW TOTALS $10,700
    127 5 Y.M.C.A. FUND NOW TOTALS $10,700 The S nßapore YMCA Fund has reached a total of $10,711.45. 1 The list of the latest donors follows: Part proceeds of exhibition of war pictures and trophies per the Governor $1,413.95, Mr. J.A. Ellas $!>OO, HE Bir Franklin Gimson $100, Mr. V. Pakirlsamy $100,
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    LABOURERS ON STRIKE
    52 5 Sunday Times Reporter MORE than 200 Chinese labourers 111 engaged in unloading rubber from tongkangs and lighters in the Singapore roads went on strike yesterday, demanding a 60 per cent. Increase In wages The rubber importers are meetIng the strikers on Tuesday in an effort to effect
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    STOKERS FINED
    53 5 TWO Chinese stokers of t^e ship 1 E. Sang wer c fined $50 each in the Fourth Police Court yesterday for using criminal force on a Revenue Officer who rttempted to search a parcel lr, the possession of one of them. The firemen were Chan Fong Lim and
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    Govt Clerks May Have Union
    106 5 Govt Clerks May Have Union Sunday Times Reporter CINGAPC^E Oovc.rn'.nt clerks at meeting yesterday decided to form a General Clerical Association, wh eh might later be a trade union or be cfflllated to the J.C.S.A. or Singapore Cler cal Union. Mr. 3. Sinnathamby. speaking at the .r.eeting, referred to "obstacles"
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    PUPPIES COME BY AIRCRAFT
    264 5 Sunday Times Reporter SIX-WEEK old pups are the latest cargoes of Liberators and Lancastrians on their 24-hour-run from Sydney to Singapore. Australia, inc' dentally, is the only country in the world from which dogs may be imported. All dogs must have a veter'nary u-alth certificate before
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    !He helps te hang Nazis
    36 5 He helps to hang Nazis Sir Hartley Snawcross, thief British prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal trying Nazi warlords. He came into the news spotlight recently whci he attacked certain sections of the British Press.
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    Nurses may be in A ustralia byXmas
    268 5 Nurses may be in A ustralia by Xmas Sunday Times Reporter MALAYAN nurses who are to be selected to be the first to travel to Australia for their post-graduate courses under the A.I.F. scheme, may leave before Christmas or very soon after, stated Mr. Claude Massey, the Australian Commissioner in
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    Loan Passes $23 Million
    50 5 THE Governor, Sir I ranklin Gimson, yesterday said that the latest figures for the Singapore rehabilitation 1 ,m showed thtt !23,1fC^tf had already been subscribed The Governor aiM°d that he expected that the balance of the 925,000,000 would K ib scribed within the next few days.
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    FourToEe For Taxi Murder
    236 5 Four To Dle For Taxi Murder Sunday Times C»n respondent IPOH. [DESCRIBED as a well-con. ved plan by the accused who had committed a cold-blooded murder I for the sake of Kan. th e p., .u--tion succeeded in v tabllsh i case against three Malays Yunus, Majid and Samaa. aim
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    Buitord-Todd Wedding
    114 5 Bullford-Todd Wedding Sunday Timis Correspondent PENANG THE first European civilian 't-dding in Pcnang since the •upatlon took place at the Church this a.'ternoon m Mr. Alec Bulford. eldfr iof Mr. and Mrs. E. H Bulford, well-known Penan* was married to P jdaughter of Mr. and Mrs r >dd. I of
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      KHOON WILL MEET HILL A GAIN ON AUG. 30
      661 6 By /.ifrv Williams, Boxing Editor, Sporting Gk>b«. MELBOURNE, Aug. 12. BRISBANE fi^ht fans took bouncing, bounding little Mok Kai Khoon to their hearts on Friday night. Although he was beaten by Australian eh:: mpion Mickey Hill on points they will turn
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      SECAMAT C. C.
      65 6 SEGAMAT C. C. (From Our Own Correspondent; SKGAMAT. Wed. 'pHB Sesamat Cricket C'ub will meet the N.8. Club to thetr return cricket fixture on Sunday at Scgantt Sreaniat't team Tin be chosen from I P. Np^esu (capt >. W. Pox. C.S K. Bovoll. Barr Kumaralcula*inghe. Othman Kadir. J M. Stngn.
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      The Longer Rounds Beat Them
      268 6 From Merr Williams MELBOURNE, Aug. 12. 1 THINK three minute rounds have been the stumbling block to all the Malayan fighters. Ev«ry one has shone out in the early stages of his contest but died away over the closing stares The extra minute of fit
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      CHELSEA SIGN ON £4,000 PLAYER
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